An adviser to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed is cooperating with the US special prosecutor investigating possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources. Lebanese businessman George Nader, who reportedly visits the White House frequently, has become a target of the…

WASHINGTON — The president of the Zionist Organization of America is the latest pro-Israel figure to visit Qatar and meet with its leader. “They invited me to go a number of times – in September, October, November and December,” Morton Klein told Haaretz on Monday, confirming his visit earlier this month. “At first I refused…

Egypt’s former top auditor and a leading member of an opposition campaign against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was seriously injured during a suspected kidnapping attempt, lawyers said. Ali Taha and Tareq el-Awady, lawyers of Hesham Genena, told the Associated Press that three men with knives jumped out of two cars that blocked the path of Genena’s…

The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) is one of 20organisations from around the world that fight for Palestinian rights whose members have been banned from entering Palestine by the government of the state of Israel due to their defence of Palestinian human rights and their support of the Boycott, Divestment and…

A group of separatists in southern Yemen, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has declared a state of emergency in the port city of Aden and vowed to overthrow the country’s internationally recognised government within the next week. Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), said Yemen’s parliament would be barred…

Members of India’s ruling party have publicly promoted Hindu supremacy, which has led to attacks against Muslims and other minorities, Human Rights Watch claims. Meanwhile, the government failed to prevent or promptly investigate attacks against victims, the group said on Thursday in its report on human rights in 2017. “The government failed to promptly or…

Tensions in the Red Sea region have been brewing for months but came to the fore when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sudan last month. The visit, hailed as historic, was the first by a Turkish head of state since 1956 when Sudan gained independence. Sudan’s official state news agency said the two countries…

A report by the New York Times has said that while Egypt’s government was publicly condemning a US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a state intelligence officer was asking influential TV hosts in the country to persuade their viewers to accept it. The newspaper reported on Saturday that it had obtained audio recordings…

The UN has rebuked the United Arab Emirates over its human rights records, citing vague “anti-terror” crimes that attract the death penalty, the tightening of censorship and the detention of human rights activists in a report released on Wednesday. The report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) raised concerns over…

Israel’s “BDS blacklist”, published in the Israeli media on Sunday, bans 20 charities and human rights groups from entering the country, because they support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement – a campaign that holds Israel to account over violations of Palestinian rights and international law. Israel imposes travel ban on 20 foreign…